My work about travel, architecture and the arts has appeared in Dwell, Metropolis, Conde Nast Traveller UK, Arrive, Bloomberg.com, CNET.com, Denver Post, Departures Magazine, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, National Geographic Traveler, Reader's Digest, and more...

I was born and raised in Baltimore, majored in French and English literatures at Stanford University, and earned an MA at University in English at the University of California-Irvine. Afterward, I lived in Paris for two years, where I was the managing editor of a glossy, English language magazine about France. I returned to San Francisco, where I wrote for Travelocity, eventually lucking into my first gig authoring guides for Lonely Planet. 

In 2008, I moved to Rio de Janeiro and lived there full-time for about five years. Now, I am back in New York City, but to keep things complicated, I have a tiny apartment in Buenos Aires. I am not sure which city is home.